Month: April 2011

The aquaponics fish tank / aquarium is filled with tap water and has been degassing for a couple of days, and it’s time to measure the content of the water: I’m using a Pondlab 200 water test kit from NT Labs which makes it possible to test 6 different parameters: Acidity (pH) General Hardness (GH)

Month: April 2011

The Eheim 1260 pump used in this system is quite powerful (65 watt) and the suction hose has just been dumped into the aquarium: I was worried that the fish wouldn’t stay far enough away from the hose end and would get sucked into or onto the hose and get hurt. I decided to fit

Month: April 2011

I don’t want to turn this blog into one about aquariums, but now that there’s an aquarium connected to the plant tank it’s part of the whole aquaponics system. Now that we have decided to use a normal hobby aquarium as fish tank we might as well spend some time making it look nice as

Month: April 2011

Photo by Girl Interrupted Eating. I love black currant. I planted a black currant bush on my old property and watched it grow and deliver a good crop of delicious berries. In my childhood home in the late 1970s we also had a few large, high yielding bushes, that we kids would rip completely –